A run for the ageless
23 Apr 2018
Community Interest
Imagine if Tom Brady donned his Patriots uniform in the year 2068 and tossed a touchdown pass to teammate Rob Gronkowski, or if Red Sox rightfielder Mookie Betts stepped up to the plate at Fenway that same year and smacked a double off the Green Monster.
On Monday, Mystic's Amby Burfoot defied age and proved his heart still beats like a champion after he ran the Boston Marathon an astonishing half-century after winning the celebrated foot race in 1968. Only a handful of former Boston victors have even attempted such a feat.
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Ambrose "Amby" Burfoot’s most joyous moment of the 1968 Boston Marathon certainly didn’t occur while running the fabled 26.2-mile foot race.
“I was absolutely terrified the whole way,” he recalled the other day. “I kept waiting for other guys to pass me.”
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